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Review of the year in hospitality and restaurants 2023

2022: Review of the year in hospitality

By BigHospiality

A look back at yet another tough year for hospitality – one that saw the Coronavirus crisis replaced by a host of new challenges for the sector to contend with.

Friday Five the week's top hospitality stories

Friday Five: the week's top news

By Joe Lutrario

Our most read news stories this week include Asma Khan's to relocate her Darjeeling Express restaurant for a second time, a disappointing mini-Budget and the full reveal of the brands that will go into JKS Restaurants' Arcade Food Hall.

Asma Khan on moving Darjeeling Express to Covent Garden and how her new restaurant is teaching women to lead

Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards Sessions

Asma Khan: "I want to teach women how to lead”

By Stefan Chomka

In the final video in the Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards' Sessions series Asma Khan talks about moving Darjeeling Express from Soho to Covent Garden and how her new restaurant is teaching women to lead.

Asma Khan Darjeeling Express Covent Garden UKs most expensive Indian tasting menus

Asma Khan: “I am the ultimate outsider”

By Stefan Chomka

The founder of Darjeeling Express on finally being accepted into Covent Garden, developing female leaders and why her new restaurant is serving one of the most expensive Indian tasting menus in the capital

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The Lowdown: Post-lockdown restaurant criticism

By James McAllister

As restaurants prepare to reopen, there’s a growing conversation around the role of critics and whether they should, for the time being at least, sheath their hatchets and focus on the positives.

Chef Asma Khan to move Darjeeling Express to a larger location restaurant Soho closed

Asma Khan: "I left a light on in the hope I'd come back"

By Restaurant

Asma Khan will not reopen her Soho restaurant Darjeeling Express once lockdown has been lifted on the 4 July but says she has plans to relaunch it in a larger venue that will become an incubator for female talent.